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pmormr 
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 Posted: 16 June 2005 at 1:30am |
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or you can send them to me... i'm always in need for parts... shipping might be a little high though for that also
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the boss
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Posted: 16 June 2005 at 4:22am |
bonfire.. umm not soo easy.. these things dont catch fire easy.. i mean u cant set a mobo on fire easy. only thing which would burn on it is probably the plastic socket..
NAS server.. nice idea..
SMTP spam trap.. not a bad idea either..i can like keep it ready with me and deplopy it as an out of box solution at some crappy site not willing to shell proper $$$..i do support some sh*tty network sites on my own.. these ppl are never willing to spend big $$$.. so they hang around me and nag me all the time for something elcheapo to fix their problems..  |
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Posted: 16 June 2005 at 11:15am |
Don't stand downwind when you're burning them though. PC's and monitors
contain some really toxic elements. Monitors do explode rather nicely
though  .
I've used old boxes for network firewalling/routing/DMZs under BSD.
Seem to have more old boxees than I can use though. After about 5-6
years their bios battery starts to get unreliable just around the time
the batteries start getting to be hard to find.
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Gullanian
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Posted: 16 June 2005 at 11:42am |
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Also on a related note, don't stand downwind when your weeing outside.
The worst thing you can do, is pee downwing on a burning pile of comupters, you might get an electric shock and a shower.
Edited by Gullanian - 16 June 2005 at 11:47am
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pmormr
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Posted: 17 June 2005 at 2:26am |
 the boss wrote:
bonfire.. umm not soo easy.. these things dont catch fire easy.. |
your in Saudi Arabia... they got pretty cheap gas
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the boss
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Posted: 17 June 2005 at 11:50am |
Gullanian wrote:
Also on a related note, don't stand downwind when your weeing outside.
The worst thing you can do, is pee downwing on a burning pile of comupters, you might get an electric shock and a shower.
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seems like u have similar experience.. may be by playing fireman at kinder garten after setting up a school pc on fire.. 
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Posted: 17 June 2005 at 6:52pm |
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Why not wipe them all, drop a cheap linux distro on them, load up
Beowulf or something like that, and turn them into a storage network
for everyone in the company.
You can set your "primo" box as a controller for them or as a front end to expose them to the web/network.
There is software out there that will let you setup things quickly and easily.
The company I work for actually sells software that allows you to setup
web based storage that looks identical to a local hard drive. The back
end is Linux and MySQL. It scales VERY well. There are installations of
it running with over 100TB of storage and massive numbers of users.
(Not GB - TB - that's a LOT.)
The solution isn't appropriate for small companies or personal use, but
it makes sense for medium to large companies/organizations. The service
model is well suited for ISPs and telcos.
No matter what you do though, you can find a use for them. With
something like Beowulf though, you can turn them into a supercomputer
for CPU intensive tasks like data analysis or whatever tickles your
fancy.
With RealVNC, you can give users access to the controller to run applications that need CPU power or storage.
Cheers,
Ryan
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Posted: 17 June 2005 at 6:53pm |
Gullanian wrote:
Also on a related note, don't stand downwind when your weeing outside.
The worst thing you can do, is pee downwing on a burning pile of comupters, you might get an electric shock and a shower.
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